I Stole Your Code

I Stole Your Code
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Designers fight over intellectual property like it's their firstborn child, while programmers casually admit to code theft with zero shame because... well, nobody actually owns that code anyway. It came from Stack Overflow, which came from someone's GitHub, which was adapted from a 2009 blog post, which was inspired by a Java tutorial from 2003. The chain of custody is so convoluted that claiming ownership is like trying to copyright air. We're all just remixing the same solutions to FizzBuzz at this point.